Imagine the following scenario: You walk into your favorite shop on KuDamm! You enter the shop, look for something really nice, put it in your shopping basket and go to the cashier. Now the pretty lady behind the desk presents you a blank to fill up. Requesting your Name, Family name, your mother’s maiden name, birth date, etc. They insist that you have to be a member of their club with a special membership card, in order to buy from their shop! We never see this in our real live, right? Why should we see this online? Let us talk about user online identities and what has changed since the 1990s.

Cloud can help a lot when we want to move our whole infrastructure. But yet there are some caveats, catches and got-chas we have to know in order to build our secure and reliable infrastructure in the cloud. The topic will cover most common issues and their solutions, IT people are facing when moving Infrastructure loads to Windows Azure IaaS (Virtual Machines).